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[delga]

My nails make it bloody hard to type on this phone.

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Somehow my Spooks post has actually become a series of comments to the comm. May repost for posterity. But the thing I haven't said yet - mostly because, daygloparker, you deconstruct Ruth and her motivations so well that I get reluctant to character talk the way I used to with Ros; I don't want to reiterate your points in a haphazard fashion at 50% eloquence - is that there is only one Ruth. We've had any number of 123s (aka Tom/Zoe/Colin) but no other Ruth. Spygran did not at all operate in the same way. I mean, you can look at Connie in respect of Ruth, but you can't do the reverse; she's really more of a corollary to Tessa's breed of spook, which is a bridge Ros crosses but returns from. But Ruth is singular. The character arc work there is so subtle. She convinced herself - in exile - that she wasn't a spy. That's how you survive exile, of course: by making a people elsewhere. Ruth's namesake could tell you that. But the antidote to exile is a return home and Ruth, our Ruth, is home now.

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Probably I would have an easier time with this fandom if my interest lay in Ruth/Harry, but it only does insomuch as it services Ruth's characterisation. Harry's characterisation is something I'm interested in following, but am not sympathetic to. Problematic. Ruth as apologist never sits right with me; it's not out of character, just disappointing at times. (I will always have a preference for that edge of anger; I don't think Harry deserves a lot of the reprieve he has been getting of late. His own downward spiral will probably implode at the same time Ruth and Lucas collide. Seriously, I think that's going to be a mess.)

Comments

[hestia8.livejournal.com]

Good point re Ruth. I would have put it as 'SHE IS AMAZING' so points for eloquence :)

I'd be more interested in Harry if his development (or even actions within one episode!) had some consistency. When he said that line about giving a man a chance to show you who he really is at the end of 903, I nearly hit something. You did show her; she didn't like it. stop.

I've liked the bits when Ruth has essentially said 'get over it', less so when she indulges him. But if putting up with Harry is what it takes to get more Ruth, fair enough.

That one little bit from the end, oh my. That...yes. Ruth v Lucas, okay then. Especially if Harry gets forced to choose between them, because that will absolutely kill Lucas, because he won't choose him. He'll choose Ruth.

[daygloparker.livejournal.com]

Hehehehe *BLUSHES IMMENSELY*. Let's just call it massive shock that the character living in my brain actually turned out to be true. Wait, does that make me sound crazy? It makes me sound a little crazy.